Benjamin Wittes Quotes

Stability in law - particularly constitutional law - is critically important; the Supreme Court would do well to remember that.

Benjamin Wittes

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• I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Business
  • Think
  • Law

• I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, but my mom signed me up and would put me in cute costumes. A lot of little girls get into dancing, but I loved it so much that I kept doing it.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Age

• I think my darkest days were probably when I was catering. I would go to these parties and pass out hors d'oeuvres, and it's like you're invisible. I remember one catering captain told me that all you are is a tray that comes into their space for a moment and then you leave. It was one of the most depressing things I've ever been told.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Remember
  • Space
  • Moment

• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Book
  • Remember

• Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Job
  • Law
  • Single

• I remember when I wanted every pitch to be a strike.

  

  Ed Walsh
  • Remember
  • I Remember
  • Strike

• If you put a much older woman in 'Doctor Who,' they can identify with it. I think it's quite an interesting concept, and if you remember things like 'Grimm's Fairytales,' the older woman is often the villainess, often the terrifying figure - why I do not know, but often she is. I think it's an idea to be exploited.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Why
  • She
  • Remember

• I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Up
  • School
  • Remember

• Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Law
  • Opinion
  • Judges

• What I know of Steve Trevor is everything that I learned from 'Wonder Woman,' the television series with Lynda Carter. And I don't remember much. I do remember his uniform, though.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Remember
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Fear
  • Law
  • Picture

• I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Science

• Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Small
  • Friendship

• This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Law
  • Trial

• When planning your wedding you make so many decisions: 'Do I want this fork or that fork?' But in the end people aren't going to remember what napkin holder you choose.

  

  Lara Stone
  • People
  • Remember
  • End

• Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Death
  • Law
  • Death Penalty

• In law it is a good policy never to plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you cannot.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Law

• I do not, therefore, need any penetrating acuteness to see what I have to do in order that my volition be morally good. Inexperienced in the course of the world, incapable of being prepared for whatever might come to pass in it, I ask myself only: can you also will that your maxim become a universal law?

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • World
  • Good
  • Law

• Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence but none to self-restraint, and let us daily progress in that direction.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Remember
  • Progress
  • Daily

• American pop culture is perpetually in adolescent mode. The notions of what it takes to be a man, as depicted in pop culture, are very superficial, one-dimensional, and adolescent.

  

  Alex Tizon
  • American
  • Culture

• You create identity, you're not given identity per se. What became more interesting to me wasn't the I, it was text because it's texts that create the identity. That's how I got interested in plagiarism.

  

  Kathy Acker
  • Interesting
  • Identity
  • Text

• 'I just had my makeup done, so you can't make me cry.'

  

  Bret Easton Ellis
  • Done
  • Makeup

• Stability in law - particularly constitutional law - is critically important; the Supreme Court would do well to remember that.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Remember
  • Law
  • Stability